"What is it?"
Cao Yuan caught up from behind and, seeing Lu Menglei's strange expression, took the initiative to ask.
"This is Building 5... Haven't you heard the legend about this place?"
"A legend?"
Lu Menglei recounted the story of Classroom 609 in Building 5. The more she spoke, the paler her face became. She looked around, feeling chills all over her body.
Sometimes, the person telling a ghost story became even more immersed in it than the listener. She could already feel a cold, sinister air around them.
Cao Yuan glanced suspiciously up at the building. "It's just a horror story. There's no need to take it seriously. I'll go with you."
"Are we really going...?" Lu Menglei hesitated. "But the rumor sounds so real... Pretty much everyone at Shangjing University knows that this teaching building is taboo at night."
"Taboo? Then I'd like to see what kind of taboo it is."
Cao Yuan gave a light laugh and strode toward the dim entrance of the teaching building, his silhouette beneath the streetlamp as imposing as a giant.
Seeing this, Lu Menglei gritted her teeth and followed closely behind Cao Yuan.
Although this teaching building only had six floors, it covered a vast area. Cao Yuan walked into the empty first-floor lobby and looked up. Layer upon layer of corridors rose overhead, like a stacked abyss hanging upside down in the pitch-black darkness.
"Where do we turn on the lights?" Cao Yuan asked.
"I remember... I think it's over in that corner."
Lu Menglei stayed close behind Cao Yuan. As she looked at the dark, deathly silent interior of the building, the scenes she had just imagined surfaced in her mind again. Her palms began to sweat with nervousness. She pointed in a direction and lowered her voice, as